Ch 5
Kim knew he had no basis to contest what Betty's roommates were telling him. He hoped that by hearing it all, they would close the chapter on his own screwups and maybe, just maybe, they would stop their hostility towards him. He wasn't the worst of people; he was just young, naΓ―ve, a bit self-centered and wanting 'everything' on his terms. As he heard more and more of the details of what had transpired since Friday evening, he became less and less confident that anything would work out for him.
He knew that Betty's roomie wasn't holding back, that she truly didn't like him. Unlike Marla, who showed some empathy for his stupidity, Trisha was out for blood. She truly wanted to injure Kimmy in every way she could. That she was with Betty to talk about things in the middle of the night didn't help his cause in the slightest.
Trisha then added "They're quite the couple, if you ask me. They went to the beach on Sunday; I loaned her my new bikini to wear as all she had was a boring one piece. They were at the beach ALL DAY but I told him to make sure she had suntan oil on.. all over her body, Kimmy" her voice evil, knowing that I was visualizing all of it.
Betty had shown me that bikini one time as Trisha had left her clothes scattered around their shared room and it was very visible- dark red and very skimpy. I pictured Betty wearing it and felt arousal but then realized that she wore it for Damien, but I still felt a tingly sensation. I adjusted my crotch, wondering what was coming over me- that sensation that I had felt when I saw her kissing him was now escalated 1000x. What the hell was going on?
Trisha wasn't done with me, not yet. "Oh, you know those bright blue spandex disco pants you bought her? Guess what Kim. She wore them out tonight!" she said, even as I could hear the others whispering 'no.. o god you told him?'
"They went out dancing," Trisha continued, knowing that she was inflicting severe pain to the pathetic individual on the receiving end of her words. "Damien has some friends in Hollywood who own a nightclub and they're out... and you know what? I borrowed some really sexy silver high heels and matching silver low cut top from one of my sorority sisters- we had to convince Betty to..."
'o god you're telling him that too?' and gasps were now even louder.
"...to...convince her to show herself off; a few glasses of wine and she smoked part of a joint- she looked soo sexy" she concluded. Trisha never really liked me; she wanted Betty to join her sorority and had her application done, submitted for pledge week, but then I had butted in and 'told her' to NOT join. Stupid, inSEXure me, afraid of her joining some group- who, we all know, have relations with fraternities.
DAMMIT!!!
So- there I was, listening to this- all that I had kind of planned & plotted, where I.. I would have all of the freedoms, squashed. Where I thought I was calling all the shots? Dead. Now what?
"Well.. um.. OK, I guess.. um.. well.. when she comes home.. tonight.. would you let her know that I called?" I asked.
"When she comes home.." "IF.. IF.." one of her roomies chimed in.. "we'll let her know you called.. when she's back.. here".
Ch 6
Studio 54 was all the rage in headlines but that that was on the other side of the country. Still, LA & Hollywood had its own versions on perhaps a smaller scale. Betty grew up as the eldest child in her family and took on a part-time volunteer role of the surrogate mom, much to the angst of her younger brothers & sisters. All of her cousins were near her age so there was no one to show her the ropes nor to take her out to tour the wild side of greater LA. Her experience was the bars & restaurants in southern California beach towns, if anything at all.